CURRENT ISSUE

July / August 2010

Puijila Darwini
Finding a Missing Link

It was known since 1978 that fossils existed in Haughton Crater but the only palaeontologist who had previously led expeditions in the Crater was Dr. Mary Dawson of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Natalia Rybczynski, a research scientist with the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Ontario, believed that the crater had the potential to yield more interesting material from the Miocene epoch, so she decided to lead an expedition to Haughton Crater in the summer of 2007. Neither Mary nor Natalia could know that, together, they would be making a fossil discovery that would amaze the world of palaeontology. — Gerard Kenney

The Art of Polar Travel
Extreme Polar Training Boot Camp

Last night when we set up our camp on the ice, it was low tide and no water was in sight. Now high tide, the Arctic Ocean shimmers in the blinding sunlight, covered in ice as far as the eye can see except for one turquoise pool of open water merely 20 metres from our camp. “Perfect morning for a swim,” hollers Matty McNair, expedition leader and instructor of this Extreme Polar Training boot camp. — Lee Narraway

Iquginnaq “A Difficult Life”

Panorama

Arts, Culture & Education

A Year in Pond Inlet by Elizabeth Spence

Sub-arctic Art School Attracts Creative Set by Wayne Potoroka

Adventure Travel

Man on a Mission by Dave Brosha

Resources

Your Northern Bookshelf

Field Notes

Northern Grizzly Bear by Claus Vogel

Inuit Forum

Standing up for What’s Right by Mary Simon